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There's one rather funny story about it. I believe we reprinted a Japanese chart, because the Japanese were doing the same thing, of course, in our Recognition magazine--and talk about censorship--the man on top of ONI saw this and blew his top, saying, “You can't do this!” because that proves that we know what they know. Do you follow me? Believe it or not, they sent something like thirty seamen out to Chicago to tear out that center spread. [laughter]

We also did maps. They were forever trying to get more information about the physical nature of targets in general, and particularly at a later date, landing areas. They would come to us to prepare folders that showed maps of the areas and photographs of the areas and photographs of all stacks and all of those things. And of course, there was a great gain for all of us because we would say, “Ah, they're asking for a rush job on the coast of southern Spain. That must mean that they're going to land there.” Of course, what they were doing is what we would now call disinformation, I guess.

Was this your only contact with Intelligence during the war?

That was my continuous contact doing those things. I rode the train to Washington once a week and I found the solution to that, because of course there were no seats and there was a john so I would just settle there. [laughter]

That's not very nice. Who else at Life was involved with Intelligence during the War?